Quotes About Frugal

The frivolous can waste more by the teaspoon than the frugal can bring home by the wheelbarrow.

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.

I'm very frugal, so I don't like to shop because I'm afraid everything is going away.

This is Staples. On a good day, we get to stay at the Marriott Courtyard. We have a frugal culture.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

I always buy organic and love farm shops. Some people think that organic is more expensive, but if you plan wisely, you can make ingredients go further. For example, use the whole chicken - bones for stock, things like that.

I don't like to spend a lot of money on haircuts: I'll sometimes grow my hair and get an acting job and get them to cut it for free. I think for a lady, though, it's okay to spend a lot on a haircut.

I'm very thoughtful and disciplined with my money.

She had Scottish blood in her and was of a saving turn of mind.

Hadrian's successor Antoninus Pius ruled for twenty-three years, nor did he undertake any expedition other than the visiting of his estates in Campania, averring that the entourage of an emperor, even one over frugal, was a burdensome thing to the provinces. SCRIPTOTES HISTORIAE AUGUSTAE, ANTONINUS PIUS, 7. 4–12.

I love kitchenware. I'm very frugal and I don't buy a lot of things, but I'm frivolous when it comes to buying groceries and kitchenware.

I don't really shop unless it's thrift.

I've always been a thrift store kid.

I'm not cheap, I'm thrifty.

I've always been quite conscious of it, though I don't know why. I would never overspend, and I have to know exactly what I've got so that I avoid going into overdraft. I watch my pennies, and I'm quite thrifty.

I'm very particular but very thrifty at the same time.

We're thrifty. We can live off our interest, save the principal, and let the kids go off and have a hoot.

It is in the nature of Smaland to be thrifty.

One week, I remember saving more than half my grocery bill that week with coupons. I was beyond thrilled.

I'm pretty cheap, to be honest.

Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.

How were they to square the tremendous wealth they accrued with their image of themselves as frugal and virtuous? Easy: just argue that commerce was itself virtuous. To be rich in corrupt old Europe must be a sign of droneishness; but to be rich in fresh young American was the fruit of hard work. The beehive provided Americans with the ideal image for their religion of work.

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.

Being Scottish, I'm probably a little tight, or as the Scots say, 'You're cautious with your money.' I don't think that 's the worst thing in the world to be.